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Hello, im having problems with cell urls. I click on the links and paste them in the adress box but celestia just wont come up and im sitting here, staring at a blank page... I currently have a Mozilla Firefox running on a Win Xp home OS. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You have to make Firefox familiar with the cel-mime type. This could be done in 'Tools->Options->Downloads->FileTypes'. But prior to that you will have to load the 'Mimetypes' Extention into Firefox - you should get it at the Firefox webpage.

maxim

Sorry to bother but I cant find the cel mimetype extention at the main firefox page. Do you know the url for the exact location? in the meantime, ill try to google it

Firefox can be expanded by several extentions. One of these is the 'Mimetypes' extention. You should download and install it. Then you can define your own kind of mimetypes. So just define a cel-mimetype then, and activate it in the firefox options.

maxim

Sorry to bring this back up a couple of days later but im still having trouble with cel urls. Im somewhat of a dim-wit compared to the scientists here(t00fri) and i need an exact, step by step guide on how to get this mimetypes extention... Ive been trying to do some of the avalible "educational activities" but most of them are based on cel urls . Its pretty hard haing to look at...

cel://Follow/Sol:Earth:Friendship7/1962 ... Lt6N+sc6j4
/////////w&ow=0.255816&ox=-0.597816&oy=0.572634&oz=0.499264&select=Sol:Earth:Friendship%207&fov=29.374989&ts=1.000000<d=0&rf=40855&lm=0

...and trying to figure out where to go and at what time...(okay, so its sortof easy but try figuring out the exact angle to view it at)

Once again any help would be greatly appreciated

Anonymous Guest,

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Frank's Activities are based on Word documents, not HTML Web pages.
What program are you using to read Word documents?
Wordpad is not adequate.
You need at least WordViewer. It's downloadable for free from Microsoft at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=EN

OpenOffice should work, too, but I can't verify that right now.

I'm having no problems with the URL's in Frank's Word documents.
A single click starts Celestia and goes to the viewpoint.
However, this system has Word 2000 installed and
I have Firefox v0.9.1 configured as the default Web browser.

When I get home this evening (3-4 hours from now) I'll verify that WordViewer and OpenOffice work with Firefox 0.9.1.

Sorry,
I've been sure that I found it on the firefox extention page - but I couldn't find it there any more.
But you can get it from here http://gratisdei.com/FF.htm.

So download and install the 'Mime Type Editor v0.2'.
Then you will have a new entry 'Mimetypes...' in the 'Tools' Menu.
Open it and define a new mime type 'application/cel', description 'Celestia Script', extension 'cel', 'open with default application'.

That at least did it for me. If it still doesn't work, consider reinstalling (uninstall/install again) Celestia for a cleanup of the registry entries.

maxim.

selden wrote:Anonymous Guest,

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sorry about that, I seem to have to log in twice for it to recognise me

selden wrote:What program are you using to read Word documents?

Im using microsoft word 2000

selden wrote:I'm having no problems with the URL's in Frank's Word documents.
A single click starts Celestia and goes to the viewpoint.

When I click the link, I get a blank firefox web browser

maxim wrote:Sorry,
If it still doesn't work, consider reinstalling (uninstall/install again) Celestia for a cleanup of the registry entries.

maxim.

I downloaded and set it up but it still wont work for me, I guess ill have to renstall celestia(o well, ive been wanting to get pre8 anyways )

thanks for the help,

::--::Pliskin::--::

Pliskin,

make sure to enable ALL options at the install-wizard of Celestia!

There is an option according to activate scripts.

Adirondack wrote:Pliskin,

make sure to enable ALL options at the install-wizard of Celestia!

There is an option according to activate scripts.

Lol, of course I did that

To Maxim and Selden,

I just went ahead and uninstalled it and installed pre8, cels are working fine now. All I have to do at the moment is go about adding all the extra files and add-ons I had accumulated.

thanks for your help

::--::Pliskin::--::

Pliskin wrote:

Adirondack wrote:Pliskin,

make sure to enable ALL options at the install-wizard of Celestia!

There is an option according to activate scripts.

Lol, of course I did that

Well, you don't mention that you did that!
It was only a hint...

Adirondack wrote:Well, you don't mention that you did that!
It was only a hint...

Well I didnt mention that I didnt do that either now did I?! ( j/k)

Thanks for the hint

Yay! I found out what the problem was! when you click on the cel url, it looks for a program file. The problem was that I didnt have Celestia installed in C:/Program Files/Celestia Im so happy that I finally troubleshot( is that how you say it) something for myself

Bye,

::--::Pliskin::--::